• alyaza [they/she]M
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    Sixty-seven percent of voters were in favor of the code, with 33 percent opposed, according to a press release from Cuba’s National Electoral Council. In addition to legalizing same-sex marriage and civil unions and allowing those couples to adopt children, the updated Family Code also enhances women’s rights and the rights of the elderly, promotes equal sharing of domestic responsibilities, legalizes surrogate pregnancies, and provides the legal basis for prenuptial agreements, per Reuters. The code also enhances children’s rights: Rather than having “custody” of children, parents are said to have “responsibility,” and must be “respectful of the dignity and physical and mental integrity of children and adolescents,” adding that older children should be granted greater agency.

    i’m glad coverage is also noting the broader changes to the legal code; they’re arguably as substantial and good as legalizing same-sex marriage is